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Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents: Notes on the Rise of Independent Media Bibliography
Daryl Chin, an artist and critic in New York City, surveys the rise of U.S. independent media and credits government arts funding—notably the New York State Council on the Arts—with widening access to production, equipment and distribution. He outlines technological shifts (Super-8, Betacam, VHS, 16mm, optical printers, Portapak) and institutional supports such as the Millennium Film Workshop and media distributors. He cites works including Kathe Sandler's A Question of Color and discusses media hybridity, diversity, funding constraints and the need for computer literacy.
Set in Motion: The New York State Council on the Arts Celebrates 30 Years of Independents: On Television Bibliography
This essay documents artists and collectives who used public access cable, satellite links and low-power transmission to experiment with live and interactive television in New York from the early 1970s through the 1990s; it describes Bill Beirne's 1976 street performance Cross Reference at 23rd Street and Park Avenue, cablecast by Manhattan Cable Television and sponsored by The Kitchen. It recounts Douglas Davis's live two-way cablecasts (1976–77) and the 1977 Whitney telecast, the establishment of WNET/13's TV Lab in 1972 funded by NYSCA and the Rockefeller Foundation, and projects by TVTV, Image Union, Lanesville TV and Paper Tiger Television.
Shalom Gorewitz: Metaphoric Image Manipulator Bibliography
Shalom Gorewitz: Metaphoric Image Manipulator
Signals in Syracuse - Video History: Making Connections conference Bibliography
Video History: Making Connections examined three decades of independent video since the late 1960s and opened with Video Rewind, organized by Deirdre Boyle; panels included Paul Ryan, Barbara London (MOMA video curator) and Parry Teasdale, with screenings such as Proto Media Primer (1970) and Calligrams (1970). A concurrent Video Preservation meeting, involving Mona Jimenez and referencing MOMA’s 1991 preservation meeting, addressed cataloging, funding and technical support; David Ross delivered a keynote at Henriks Chapel on Net Art and video’s institutional absorption. Pamela Hawkins organized a Resource Room displaying early analog and digital recording and playback equipment, processors and period publications, and panels treated writing and teaching video history.
Some Notes on Vasulka Video - 1973-74 Bibliography
Some Notes on Vasulka Video - 1973-74 Derived from program notes for a touring exhibition of videotapes in 1978. The Moving Image Statewide: 13 Tapes by 8 Videomakers (Steina and Woody Vasulka, Peter Campus, Cara deVito, Joan Jonas, Andy Mann, Bill Viola and William Wegman), supported by the Univers…
Some Thoughts on Learning by Reading the Tools: Embodying the Time Image Bibliography
Peer Bode of the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University (Alfred, New York) outlines contemporary media terms — and, next, time-based media, metonymy and next bodies — and situates them historically from Paleolithic cave performative spaces to present digital culture. He describes the IEA's activities (artist residencies, Smart Wall exhibitions, conferences, publishing), cites international media centers (ZKM, Ars Electronica, IRCAM, ISEA, Experimental Television Center, Harvest Works, Sigraph) and references the Whitney Image World exhibition (late 1980s) and Nam June Paik's 2000 Guggenheim retrospective curated by John Hanhardt.
Sonsbeek 71 Introduction and Statements by Artists Bibliography
Sonsbeek 71 (From Exhibition to Activity) commissioned site-specific works for the park and nationwide locations; participants included Michael Heizer, Richard Long, -d Ruscha and Robert Morris, with city projects in Rotterdam, Utrecht and Amsterdam. The program integrated media and communication infrastructures—film and video (a video studio at Sonsbeek), telex, small offset printing, conference telephone and press—and commissioned films from Boezem (Leiden), Jan Dibbets and Gar van Elk, plus a documentary directed by loss Odufre (scenario by Title Tybout). Publications included Cor Blok's Atlas voor eon nieuwe metropool, Octopus Foundation books by Hanne Darboven and Ed Ruscha, a newssheet and a Dutch-English catalogue; organizational leadership is credited to W.A.L. Beeren and named work-group members.
Standards Bibliography
Collection of documents by Eric Siegel concerning modifications to the Portapak and development of a video/color synthesizer, dated 1971–1976. Includes an article Modifications to Portapak in Radical Software (Summer 1971); press material for the video synthesizer (1971); a document titled Siegel Processing Chrominance Synthesiser (1975); spec sheets for gen lock, proc amp and synthesizer plus correspondence (1976); standards (1971); technical design information for an electronic synthesizer; and a patent for a video synthesizer (1972).
States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies Demobilizations: Anesthetics, Dreams, and Nightmares excerpt Bibliography
This excerpt from Patricia Zimmermann's chapter Demobilizations: Anesthetics, Dreams, and Nightmares examines documentary and video strategies that demobilize wartime imagery and reattach it to the senses; it argues that formal interventions and new technologies (video processing, computer effects, multichannel installations, optical printing) can resuscitate sensory experience and resist the anesthetizing of visuality. The text analyzes films and tapes including Listen to Britain (1942), Night and Fog (1955, Alain Resnais), Hiroshima-Nagasaki (1970; Barnouw et al.), Meta Mayan (Edin Velez, 1981), Smothering Dreams (Daniel Reeves, 1981), and Dreamkeeper (Philip Mallory Jones, 1989), and cites theorists Buck-Morss, Renov, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Bhabha, and Felman and Laub; published by University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Steina and Woody Vasluka: Machine Media - Reading the Tools, Writing the Image Bibliography
Steina and Woody Vasluka: Machine Media - Reading the Tools, Writing the Image Catalog for exhibition organizedd by Robert Riley and Marita Sturken for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (February 2 - March 31, 1996). Catalog Editor: Marita Sturken. Reading the Tools, Writing the Image by Mauree…
Stern Media Information Bibliography
A practicing artist outlines a career from poetry, script and print to multi-media and television, invoking Marshall McLuhan and citing equipment such as the Bolex reflex 16mm, Kodak Carousel, Sony porta-pack and Polaroid SX-70. They place USCO multi-media pieces Hubbub and We Are All One alongside work by Ken Dewey, Carolee Schneemann, Alan Kaprow and the Once Group as experiments in audience overload, multi-channel interaction and associative effects; they reference information theory and Norbert Wiener. They link the rise of an information industry—abilities to assemble, store, index, retrieve and program electromagnetically coded data—to artists working with information as programmable material using processing software and hardware.
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting. Agenda. Participants. Screening Bibliography
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting. Agenda. Participants. Screening. Two day symposium held by the Experimental Television Center in collaboration with WAMC Northeast Public Radio.New York State Convening of Media Arts Organiz…
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting. New Technologies Bibliography
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting. New Technologies Two day symposium held by the Experimental Television Center in collaboration with WAMC Northeast Public RadioNew York State Convening of Media Arts Organizations and the Na…
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting. Panel Discussion Bibliography
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional Meeting. Panel Discussion. Two day symposium held by the Experimental Television Center in collaboration with WAMC Northeast Public RadioNew York State Convening of Media Arts Organizations and the N…
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : John Hanhardt Bibliography
Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State : John Hanhardt NYSCA Statewide Media Arts Meeting - Presentation by John Hanhardt.Strengthening the Media Arts in New York State A Statewide Media Arts Convening and NAMAC Regional MeetingAlbany, New York - July 29 & 30, 2004
Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited Bibliography
Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited
Suggestions Toward a Small Video Facility Bibliography
Suggestions Toward a Small Video Facility National Center for Experiments in Television (NCET) reports, no date
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the US 1968-1980: Attention! Production! Audience!: Performing Video in its First Decade, 1968-1980. Introduction to Rewind: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States (videotape collection with catalog, edited by Chris Hill; Kate Horsfield and Maria Troy, Collaborating Editors; Deirdre Boyle, Consulting Editor Bibliography
Attention! Production! Audience!: Performing Video in its First Decade, 1968-1980.
Taka Iimura's "I=YOU=HE/SHE" Bibliography
Taka Iimura's I=YOU=HE/SHE was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 5–17, 1979; it used live image and delayed replay to turn the monitor into a mirror that displaces space and time and renders the present into past and future tenses. Iimura treated videotape and the television monitor as generators of language and explored this approach in installations REGISTER YOURSELF and FACE TO FACE and in the single-channel tape SELF IDENTITY. He framed video as a semiotic ideogram to investigate self, perception and Derridean deconstruction.
Talking to Myself: Phenomenological Operation Bibliography
Takahiko Iimura created the videotape series Talking to Myself: Phenomenological Operation (1978) and exhibited one tape as an installation in 1979; the work is based on a sentence by Jacques Derrida from Speech and Phenomena, and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs (translated by David B. Allison). Iimura records himself with synchronized, dubbed and erased audio to produce splits between the speaking I and the hearing I, including a silent voice and a circular phrasing in piece no. 2; the installation plays material on two tapes across two monitors with four speakers using time-shifting and overlap. Program entry from De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam, 1980.
Television/Society/Art symposium, The Kitchen Bibliography
The Television/Society/Art symposium at the Kitchen in New York City, Oct. 24–26, convened theorists, critics, filmmakers and activists and was organized by Ron Clark and Mary MacArthur with $6,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts and $5,000 from the American Film Institute plus additional pledges; panelists included Benjamin Buchloh, Rosalind Krauss, Fredric Jameson, Herbert Schiller, Steina Vasulka, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Yvonne Rainer. Sessions treated television as a social institution, semiological and Marxist critiques, and the relationship of television and art; proceedings were marked by heated debate, audience interventions, limited videotape screenings (only Jean-Luc Godards work shown) and responsive additions to panels, and future conferences were announced.
The Art Style Computer Processing System Bibliography
Describes the art-style computer processing system, a centrally located computer with remote controls designed to manipulate commercial television broadcasts into rule-governed period visions derived from historical schools of painting; the system encodes numerous movements including Rayonism, Cubism and Impressionism. It gives a usage example of processing a network news broadcast through Rayonism and cites Michel Larionov and Nathalie Gontcharova; Larionov taught at the University of Moscow and published the Rayonist manifesto in 1913. The system is stochastic and intended for integration into cable television, with components under development by technological artists worldwide.
The Artist in the 2 and 3 -D Marketplace Bibliography
Vibeke Sorensen delivered a talk, Panel: The Artist in the 2 and 3 -D Marketplace, at the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Boston, Massachusetts on August 2, 1989; she examined artist–industry collaborations and argued for artists as researchers and equal partners with computer scientists in interdisciplinary computer graphics and scientific visualization. She cited Apple Computer, Pacific Data Images, NCSA, SDSC, the Art(n) group, and the National Science Foundation (1987 report), and described projects including NCSA’s Renaissance Teams, an Omnimax project, two Mars Rover animation sequences with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Dr. Brian Muirhead, and an NSF-funded interactive stereoscopic animation project with Dr. Lynn Teneyck at SDSC; she advised artists to prioritize innovation, education, and integrity.
The Avant Garde Festival: And Now, Shea Stadium Bibliography
The Avant Garde Festival: And Now, Shea Stadium brief history of festival; upstate participants noted includeTony COnrad, Ralph Hocking, Paul Sharits, Woody and Steina Vasulka, Media Bus Videofreex, Bill Viola
The Case for a Center for Independent Television. Presented at the Conference Television Makers and Public Communications Policy Bibliography
The Case for a Center for Independent Television. Presented at the Conference Television Makers and Public Communications Policy